From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B8A04138330 for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2016 06:31:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3084E0B7F; Sat, 24 Sep 2016 06:30:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03c.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03c.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 070ABE0B68 for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2016 06:30:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) by smarthost03c.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1bngU4-0007oU-KS for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2016 06:30:48 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Madly flickering display Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 07:30:48 +0100 Message-ID: <23421181.0DhzpJur3E@peak> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.7.4-gentoo; KDE/4.14.24; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20160923203055.4sutrn6gl7fq5cen@grusum.endjinn.de> References: <2926816.LQt0eU1VXK@peak> <20160923203055.4sutrn6gl7fq5cen@grusum.endjinn.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost03c-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: e7b1e3be-f39b-41fa-92e4-763c948b06df X-Archives-Hash: a155bbf8e79097759519af042f607ee0 On Friday 23 Sep 2016 22:30:55 David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >I've broken this out from the thread it appeared in, Problems with > >Xinerama I found from Xorg.0.log that X11 wasn't finding an evdev > >module, even though I had INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" in make.conf. So I added > >USE=evdev to dev- qt/qtgui* and that created the module, even though > >kensington@gentoo said it had nothing to do with it. > > Do you have x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev installed? > > # equery files x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev |grep '\.so' > /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so > > That's the 'evdev' module that your X doesn't find. I have now, since adding that USE flag. I'll have to remove it and recompile to complete the check. -- Rgds Peter